Productive two days sanding, sanding, sanding!

Am I writing? No. But the office’s glow-up is going well!

Unsettling at best.

A deep dive into one family’s relationship, dependence, resentment and existence together and apart, including their nanny; all hateful and pitiful in their own ways in equal measures. And yet! You will not be able to look away…

#bookreview

#Writers help!

I won my local writing comp last year, which means I have to pick this year’s theme. Ahhh!

What do you think of any of the below?

- Forgetting
- Forgiveness
- Ghosting

OR I pick a setting:

- A funeral
- A bowling alley
- The Reservoir (a local nature reserve)

In Memoriam, by Alice Winn

Devastating, hopeful, beautiful and poignant amidst the crushing realities of life in the trenches. I couldn’t put it down and felt bereft when it finished. Sliding into my 10 reads of all time without a flicker of doubt.

#bookreview

Are you a planner or a pantser?

I may or may not be a planner…

Started this beauty this week. It should come with a reader warning:

May cause loss of sleep, loss of an evening, loss of words; may induce big emotions. Read at own risk.

My 10yo and her bestie are watching the Eras tour this afternoon, taking over our living room, disco light going, in their Swiftie T’s, tiny beady bracelets up to their elbows.

There isn’t a single room in the house where we can’t hear them singing along.

So that’s how my Saturday is going. You?

When I grow up I hope I have an eighth of the bravery #BishopBudde showed this week.

#bemorebudde

Hi, hello, joining Bluesky so I can play in a space not owned by Zuck or another of Trump’s cronies.

Such a shame, I’d been living Threads. 😕

I chat books, writing, parenting, film, musical theatre and TV. Sometimes my many, many plants get a look in too. Always feminist.